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Thinking Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,…
- Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
- You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into…
- I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
- When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration…
- Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,†I (a)…
- Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up…
- I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
- The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who…
- This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth…
- I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.
- Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children -…
- Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that…
- Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You…
- I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown…
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is…
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form…
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